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BACKCAST

Definition: BACKCAST

BACKCAST

Noun

1. Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Backcast \Back"cast`\, noun. [Back, adv.+ cast.]. (Websters 1913)

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Crosswords: BACKCAST

Specialty definitions using "BACKCAST": backcast stripping. (references)

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Modern Translations: BACKCAST

Language Translations for "backcast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

ackcastbay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: BACKCAST

Derivations

Words beginning with "BACKCAST": backcasts. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BACKCAST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scatback.

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-k-s-t"

-3 letters: aback, bacca, backs, cacas, katas, stack, tacks, takas.

-4 letters: abas, acta, acts, baas, back, bask, bast, bats, cabs, caca, casa, cask, cast, cats, kaas, kabs, kata, kats, sack, scab, scat, skat, stab, tabs, tack, taka, task.

-5 letters: aas, aba, abs, act, ask, baa, bas, bat, cab, cat, kab, kas, kat, sab, sac, sat, ska, tab, tas, tsk.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-c-k-s-t"
 

+1 letter: backcasts, backchats, scatbacks.

 

+2 letters: backtracks, hatchbacks.

 

+3 letters: backscatter.

 

+4 letters: backscatters.

 

+5 letters: backscattered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BACKCAST


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 43 4B 43 41 53 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    -.-.    -.-    -.-.    .-    ...    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 01000011 01000001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#67 &#65 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0043 004B 0043 0041 0053 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3635374537355354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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